Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Roderick MacKinnon

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Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Roderick MacKinnon is an American biophysicist, neuroscientist, and businessman. He is a professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at Rockefeller University who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Peter Agre in 2003 for his work on the structure and operation of ion channels.

American - Scientist | Born: February 19, 1956

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I always say, 'Let your experiment speak to you.' What I mean by that is I - actually, we, or, at least, I'm not smart enough, actually, to guess how nature is working, but by looking and doing the right experiments and paying close attention to the subtleties of it, you start to catch on.

Roderick MacKinnon

Some people look at big things, and other people look at very small things, but in a sense, we're all trying to understand the world around us.

Roderick MacKinnon

I find I get fixed in my ways if I don't change. I think I take too many things for granted.

Roderick MacKinnon

I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.

Roderick MacKinnon

I was a daydreamer. Teachers kept telling me to pay attention.

Roderick MacKinnon

I think funding risky projects is very important.

Roderick MacKinnon

You hear a lot of scientists say the same thing. It doesn't have to be a big thing because the thing about being a scientist is even the little things are big things to us.

Roderick MacKinnon

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Roderick MacKinnon

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